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Omar Gonzalez: The Galaxy Defender

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here.Jan. 7, 2012: Los Angeles Galaxy defender Omar Gonzalez was in an airport bathroom in Belek, Turkey, injecting himself with a blood thinner. He'd arrived in Belek two days before ... More >>

Henry Rollins: George Bush's War Is Still With Us

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] See also: The Steubenville Rape Case Is a Failure The ten year anniversary of the invasion and ... More >>

Peter Murphy Of Bauhaus Arrested For Alleged DUI, Meth Possession

Updated at the bottom: He says he didn't do it. First posted at 7:01 a.m. Peter Murphy, the "Godfather of Goth" and the vocalist for legendary group Bauhaus, was in jail this week after he was arrested based on an alleged felony in Glendale, according to L.A. County Sheriff's Department inmate data ... More >>

Q & A With Mary Sue Milliken: The Diplomatic Culinary Partnership, Prop 37 a New Chef at Border Grill

Mary Sue Milliken, as always, is in the midst of a zillion things. The food activist, TV personality and chef-owner with Susan Feniger of Border Grill has been a vocal advocate of passing Proposition 37, the ballot initiative that would make the labeling of GMO products law in California. Milliken ... More >>

5 Best New Cookbooks For Teenagers

The upside of reality food television: all the teenagers we meet who want to hang in the kitchen in today's cool tattooed chef era. And yet most teenagers are still caught in those awkward cooking years. They don't need kid's cookbooks, or at least don't think they do. But they're not quite ready fo ... More >>

At Mezze, Chef Micah Wexler Nails a Menu of Creative, Middle Eastern-Inspired Dishes

4 Perfectly Plausible Explanations for the Needles in the Sandwiches on Delta Flights Leaving Amsterdam

First things first: Do not panic. Yes, there is a needle in your turkey sandwich. Yes, it is poking out from its little temporary home between the mayo and the lettuce. The needle is sharp. It is there. But do not panic. Do not necessarily leap to the conclusion that midflight meals are the terrori ... More >>

What's In Season at the Farmers Markets: Sour Plums Your Stone Fruit Update

Most tree fruit farmers would dearly like to sweep last year under the rug. The last winter frosts nailed several prominent growers hard -- Scattaglia and Tenerelli among them -- reducing or completely eliminating whole crops of apricots, peaches, pears, and plums. The cool spring that followed di ... More >>

Best United Nations on a Breakfast Plate

Leave it to the cooks of Turkey to prove how well we really can all get along via a single plate of food. As perfected at House Café on Beverly Blvd., the Turkish breakfast -- kahvalti -- has something for everyone, seemingly from every nearby country. The composed dish has small portions of French ... More >>

10 Cheap Restaurants for New Year's Eve

Last week, we listed 11 new restaurants open for New Year's Eve. All will present special menus -- at "special" prices ranging from $46 to $475. Prefer to not break the bank for New Year's? We've selected ten restaurants where you can dine for less than $30 per person (not including drinks) past ... More >>

Space Clown Adventures: Guy Laliberté, Cirque du Soleil Founder, Discusses His Outer Space Photography

Courtesy of AssoulineGuy, on the bottom row, second from left, with the rest of his crew in space.​ Guy Laliberté has had many lives -- he's gone from fire-breathing street performer to poker shark to the multimillionaire head of Cirque du Soleil. In his latest incarnation, he's become a "spa ... More >>

Philosophy as Comedy, Moviemaking as War

Pearls of wisdom from Alejandro Jodorowsky

Venn Food Diagrams: L.A.'s Idea of Armenian Food Vs. What Armenians Eat

The Venn Food Diagram train has ventured west of India and landed in Armenia, the ancient landlocked country wedged between Iran, Azerbaijan and Turkey, which recently produced the world's earliest leather shoe and wine-producing facility. Steady immigration from Armenian communities in Lebanon, Ira ... More >>

LAX Bikini Girl Corrine Theile Goes Viral In Half-Naked Protest Against TSA

ABC7Corrine Theile makes a point. We forgot what it was.​Perhaps one of the best things to come out of the TSA body-scan/pat-down backlash is the fact that it's now okay to wear (and view) bikinis at LAX. Yes, the woman known as "bikini girl" went viral with her own protest of the TSA's privac ... More >>

West L.A. Guelaguetza to Reopen as Mitla

e*starLASome of the moles that have made Guelaguetza famous.​More big news from the Lopez family. As this Friday's opening of the second Pal Cabron location wasn't keeping them busy enough, they will reopen the long-closed Guelaguetza location in Palms as Mitla, a more upscale Oaxacan restaura ... More >>

Theater Reviews: The Glass Menagerie, The Good Boy, Stepping on a Few Toes

Also Beast on the Moon, Martyrdumb and more

Iraqi Metal Band Acrassicauda to Play First L.A. Show Ever

Iraqi Metal Band Acrassicauda to Play First L.A. Show Ever

Persian Setar Hero Sahba Motallebi Shreds at the Museum of Jurassic Technology

Persian Setar Hero Sahba Motallebi Shreds at the Museum of Jurassic Technology

Best of L.A.: Burgers

Phil Lord and Chris Miller Talk about Their Next Big Foodie Flick: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

​Writers and directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller have thought an awful lot about food. But not in any sort of usual way. While working on their animated film, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs based on the 1978 classic kid's book, Lord and Miller had to take the initial premise involving frea ... More >>

Old World Meets New Age in Thriller Nowhere-Land

A.W. Hill's Stephan Raszer is the thinking man's private eye

Los Angeles Film Festival: Reviews, A to Z

Our critics weigh in on what — and what not — to see

Theater Reviews: Showgirls, As You Like It

Also, Outbursts, The Last Seder, and more

Letter From Moscow: Back in the USSR

You can't rely on the official media to learn much of what's going on in Russia. The government owns all Russian TV stations, on which never is heard a discouraging word. Jon Stewart-style political satire has disappeared from the airwaves. Those pundits who dared to challenge government policy have ... More >>

Border Stories: Fatih Akin's Edge of Heaven

An interview with the German-Turkish director

Go Tell It On Grand Avenue!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Henry Rollins

Patriot act

Mish-Mash

Danube Bulgarian cuisine is all over the map

Because Nobody Walks in L.A.

Here are a few of our favorite drive-thrus . . .

South L.A.

Dangerous Games

Bahman Ghobadi’s Turtles Can Fly

Smoke and Mirrors

Hot Dogs, Hamburgers and Barbecue

Where To Eat Now: Drive Thru

Let There Be Light

Remembering 'Zorbacchus'

The Perp of Pop

One more time, with feeling

The Big Cheese

World Without End

Michael Winterbottom’s refugee saga

The Poison Triangle

Restoring Iraq’s war-ravaged marshes

A Case for the Peace Movement

What the left should do now that missiles are flying

Overtaking History

The Baghdad stakes

The Post-Saddam Quagmire

A view from the right

Shock and Awe

Pro-war propaganda

Al-Jazeera All the Time

What They Want

Global Warming

The internationalist aesthetic, from Santa Fe

Consume Part I: Food

Forty-One Reasons to Live in LA